Houston’s first Pluckers Wing Bar has the chain’s strongest launch

Houston’s first Pluckers Wing Bar has had the 15-unit chain’s best launch in terms of sales volume, company partner Sean Greenberg said.

The first Houston Pluckers opened in the Heights area at 1400 Shepherd on Nov. 25.

Pluckers was founded in Austin near the University of Texas campus.

Greeenberg, who did not share financial numbers, attributed the success of the Houston location to pent-up demand. Houston has a lot of UT graduates, he said, and since 1995 many of them recall eating wings and drinking beer at a Pluckers near campus and associate those experiences with their college days.

He said he plans to build more locations in Houston but won’t begin scouting locations until the first store has had enough time to be a smooth-running operation.

Pluckers also has locations in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and Louisiana. The restaurants offer a sports-bar-like environment and feature chicken wings and sauces of many varieties.

Pluckers was founded by two UT freshmen in a dorm room and the first store opened in 1995.